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SES New Skies announced that Impsat, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Global Crossing, has contracted 90 MHz (equivalent to approximately 2.5 transponders at 36 MHz) on the company’s NSS-10 satellite at the orbital location of 37.5 degrees West.
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The U.S. Government Accountability Office has released a report that summarises its past work on the progress and challenges facing two key environmental satellite acquisitions, the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) and Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites-R (GOES-R) programme.
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SpaceDev, Inc. announced that it has been awarded a contract to manufacture sixty low-shock spacecraft release mechanisms for Saab Space.
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The Astra 1L satellite has been deployed to its final orbital position at 19.2 degrees East to begin…
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TerreStar Networks Inc. is establishing a pilot project for deployment and testing of its wireless broadband and telecommunications services to…
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MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. received a contract to assist the U.S. Air Force in an evaluation of the capabilities of the Radarsat-2 satellite, including a study of operating a second satellite in tandem with radar imagery spacecraft, MacDonald Dettwiler announced…
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BSkyB added 259,000 broadband customers in the company’s 2007 fourth quarter, bringing the total number of subscribers to 716,000, the company announced July 11. BSkyB launched its Sky Broadband offerings in 2006 following the acquisition of…
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Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. announced that it is providing a SkyEdge broadband satellite network to SatCom Networks Africa Ltd. (SatCoNet), a Tanzanian public data communications operator.
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